Richmond’s 2017 premiership side did not contain one player aged 30 years or more, which is just the seventh time this has occurred in league football throughout the past half-century.

Valuable midfielder Shaun Grigg was the team’s oldest player, at 29 years and 164 days, closely followed by quality rebounding defender Bachar Houli, at 29 years, 141 days.

The combined average age of the premiership-winning Tigers was 25 years, 43 days.

Interestingly, of the seven occasions there have been no 30-year-olds in an AFL/VFL premiership line-up over the past 50 years, Richmond has featured in four of them – 1967, 1969, 1974, and now 2017.

In ’67, Tigers captain Fred Swift was the team’s oldest player, at 29 years, 80 days, in ’69 it was skipper Roger Dean, at 29 years, 150 days, and in ’74 it was star midfielder Paul Sproule, at 29 years, 286 days.

When Hawthorn won the flag in 1976, Ian Bremner was its oldest player, at 29 years, 169 days, Gary Foulds was the oldest member of Essendon’s premiership side in 1984, at 28 years, 140 days, while Ben Johnson was the eldest statesman of Collingwood’s 2010 premiership team, at 29 years, 181 days.